Meet Vinay Chakravarty. He went to college with me and is a close friend of my sister's.

He has two weeks to find a bone marrow donor.

Since Vinay is a South Asian, the probability of finding a donor is best within our community. There is a staggeringly low number of South Asian donors currently registered.

Here is how you can help:

bcm has been operating out of Chandigarh for over 4 years.  It looks like people are starting to catch on (CNN):

Check out how fat India looks based on its population in 2050.

"It's an exquisite love story of an adult romance...of people I know of from my parents' generation... who are content to be still...who don't need roses and diamonds and hallmark cards and 'I love yous' and proclamations and public displays of love.

"We have to welcome the great minds of this world, not drive them out of this country," Gates said.

Of course, the press jumps on a story like this as a sign of "how, despite a thriving tech industry, Bangalore is just not Silicon Valley". If a shutdown is what it takes to reach that epiphany, you deserve a cookie.

Unfortunately for Bangalore, recent targeting by terrorist groups might place the city of baked beans closer to New York in the global imagination.

Bangalore's issues may also speed the inevitable (and ongoing) push of IT companies to other cities in India. As if the gridlock on outer ring road wasn't enough motivation already.

In Borat, Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (it just isn't the same if you don't list the entire title), Borat makes it to an evangelical church where fervent believers speak in tongues. When the mood takes him, and he himself starts speaking in tongues ("alalalalalala"), the movie reaches one of its most ludicrously funny points.

But, according to the NY Times, he is making fun of a real scientific phenomenon ("is not a funny good time?", asks borat)

His buddy Rudy, however, is a different story altogether:

Rudy is the picture of monkey vitality, although he is slightly older. Thin and feisty, Rudy stops grooming his smooth coat just long enough to pirouette toward a proffered piece of fruit.

The difference between monkey 1 and monkey 2? Quantity of food.

The Oscars hardly have a liberal back story. The academy was founded by Louis B. Mayer, the legendary head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for crass business reasons.

'I found that the best way to to handle moviemakers was to hang medals all over them....If I got them cups and awards, they'd kill themselves to produce what I wanted.'

So, my question is, why do we consider only one of these conclusions racist?

1. A white man goes to flight school. Must be a hobbyist. An Arab man goes to flight school. Must be a terrorist.

2. A British company is charged with managing American ports. Jolly good. They get taken over by an Arab company. Not Jolly. Bad. (because they must be terrorists).

If we want to get serious about our port security, we need to nationalize it. Like our military. Oh wait. Not like our military.

I want to send a BIG thank you to all the Intentblog readers who sent kind words and congratulations to my wife and me. Your comments and emails were awesome!

Since Dhruva only has five years before I send him off to the forest to meditate, I am going to end this post and go watch him sleep.